King is going to UND. There were close to 80 other P6 type schools that could have taken a flyer on him. I don't think coaches take flyers. They truly take guys they see fitting in and playing a role for the team, and Johnson has other guards he would like as Gophers.
King fizzled at ISU and transferred to the Summit League and his brother transferred down to D2 from the Summit League. Two different people, but they might not have the mentality to compete at the highest level. Many factors playing into it.
Yep and I'd have a hard time believing many of them have done worse with their rosters/scholarships than we have. How many of them wanted Daniels? T. Samuels? Jack Wilson? W. Ramberg? Ogele?
In analyzing whether or not we should have gone after King,
it needs to be in the context of who we are going after and getting. You're right, good programs wouldn't have the space to take a flyer on Eli King. But we aren't there and year after year we continue to drop scholarships to guys who we know won't make an impact.
As to whether or not King would come here, I have no idea. It's not about King, it's about players like him. Just because some of the players are signing at lower level schools than the U doesn't mean they wouldn't have helped our program more than some of the guys we have signed.
As to Johnson's vision for the team and our guard play, yeah, do you really trust it? Do you think he had his pulse on the abilities of our backcourt last year? It's the same nonsense I heard last year when I said we didn't have guards. I get it, he's a coach and I'm not, so his decisions are always right.
